Example sentences of "in a [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can not use bulbs for a 20-lamp set in a 40-lamp one , or vice versa . |
| 2 | The speakers hardly whine and Jim Reid now sings with a US accent , rather than mumbling in a Scots one — it all sounds improbably adult-oriented . |
| 3 | Indeed some of the results are of practical value today in the choice of white clothes in a sunny climate and black in a dull one . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm in a similar one next door , and I find it to be quite adequate . ’ |
| 5 | The number of times you have to take the medicines varies : frequently in an acute condition and less frequently in a chronic one . |
| 6 | Policy delivery is not easily made an ‘ even-handed ’ process ; class differences influence access to professional services , some social security applicants are less well informed and more easily deterred than others , and ‘ street-level bureaucrats ’ who may be regarded as highly responsive to local needs in a white neighbourhood may be seen very differently in a black one . |
| 7 | If that decision is the right one , then the spirit can progress to the next lesson ; if the person gives in to temptation , then the spirit has to be faced with that choice again and again ( either later in that same life or perhaps in a future one ) until the right decision is reached . |
| 8 | I bet it does n't relate to an actual operation in a general hospital because you 've got so many people wanting their rake off in a private one surely ? |
| 9 | You might also need to fit a standard depth ( 25mm ) box if the existing switch is in a plaster-depth one . |
| 10 | Lifeboat coxswain Dave Kennett , who went out to the yacht , said : ‘ It was a chance in a million they were seen . |
| 11 | Tardelli is n't there any longer , one player ca n't make a team , and besides , Tardelli played in a great one . |
| 12 | This sometimes occurs in certain environments and when asked how this could be rectified he said it was not viable to work on a computer of that age and invest in a new one . |
| 13 | As one length is finished , overlap and tie in a new one , ensuring that no gaps are left |
| 14 | But at the time Mendeleev , like Clerk Maxwell , looked like the last word in an old discussion rather than the first in a new one . |
| 15 | Ca n't we sell them ours and put in a new one |
| 16 | In a new one , in a box . |
| 17 | The tritone , though designated as ‘ neutral ’ , has a rather changeable quality , as it can seem mildly dissonant in a consonant context or consonant in a dissonant one . |
| 18 | The first comedian says something in a high-flown style , and the other repeats the same information in a colloquial one : |
| 19 | ‘ They 've solved the ulcer problem for nearly everyone , but for one in a hundred it does n't work . |
| 20 | We stayed right with him , though , because at last Seve dunked in a long one . |
| 21 | It may involve the agency 's casting team ( which may be a specialist in a large agency , but is usually the creative group head and the TV producer in a small one ) in seemingly endless poring over directories of actors , and actually seeing a large number of them before a decision can be made . |
| 22 | The size of a piece of furniture can look amazingly different when placed in different surroundings — lost in a vast , tall room , overpowering in a small one . |
| 23 | This raises the possibility that OS/2 — and , with it , IBM 's partnership with Microsoft — will get caught in a vicious circle , much like DOS got caught in a virtuous one . |
| 24 | We were involved in a large one in the Ulster Hall . |
| 25 | He might of done he said , he probably would of done in the la the unions would of put in a big one for Mr Major would n't give one , still would n't have affected |
| 26 | For example , we place the small cats ( domestic cat , sand cat , ocelot , etc. ) in one genus , Felis , and the large cats ( lion , tiger , etc. ) in a different one , panthera . |
| 27 | If , during training , the rat was always released in the same place , and if it was then released in a different one , it could still swim directly to the platform . |
| 28 | Shall we have a look in a different one ? |
| 29 | Shall we shut this drawer then and have a look in a different one ? |
| 30 | I know , but you go in a different one |